Technical Product Specification

Intel® Server System P4000IP and Intel® Workstation System P4000CR Family TPS Storage and Peripheral Drive Bays
90 Intel order number G38159-002 Revision 1.2
Label
Description
A
Reserved
B
Power connector
C
4-port mini-SAS connectors
D
SMBus connector
E
Drive connector interface
Figure 41. 2.5'' Backplane, Back Side
A – Reserved
B – Power Harness Connector - The backplane includes a 2x2 connector supplying power to
the backplane. Power is routed to the backplane by a power cable harness from the server
board
C – 4-port Mini-SAS Connectors – The backplane includes two or three multi-port mini-SAS
cable connectors, each providing I/O signals for four SAS/SATA hard drives on the backplane.
Cables can be routed from matching connectors on the server board, add-in SAS/SATA RAID
cards, or optionally installed SAS expander cards. Each mini-SAS connector will include a silk-
screen identifying which drives the connector supports; Drives 0-3 and Drives 4-7.
D – SMBus Cable Connectors – The backplane includes a 1x5 cable connector used as a
management interface to the server board.